Abstract
PERMIT mc to thank Prof. Herschel for his all too kind acknowledgment of the aid my former brief communication to NATURE may have been to him. In a paper on Sensitive Flames that is awaiting the needful leisure to complete, I have given a brief history of this subject—which, by the way, so far as regards the discovery of sensitive flames, Prof. Herschel has partly misapprehended, though there can be no doubt the valuable letters of Prof. Herschel will play an important part in the development of these phenomena. I am glad to find that, so far as Prof. Herschel has recorded his views, they corroborate the results of my own experiments (begun as long ago as 1867) in search of the cause of the sensitiveness of various fluid jets, and the application of sensitive flames to acoustic investigation and other practical ends. For reasons, into which I will not enter here, I was led to postpone this inquiry, and it is only comparatively lately that it has been resumed.
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